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    "id": 990341,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/990341/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senator for Nairobi City County, Sen. Sakaja, is bringing out a very important issue on International Law. Under our Constitution, the provisions are very clear that we are required to comply with the international statutes and conventions. It is part of the primary and basic law of the land. The provisions that talk about the supremacy of the Constitution are in the same Article that talks about International Law. The International Law has provided guidelines on forced evictions. If you have to evict forcefully, the guidelines are there. This is because those forced evictions have social and family consequences in terms of disruption. The Constitution also talks about the right to adequate housing. These international standards require that before you evict a family from a dwelling, you must, first of all, deal with the question of where that family will go before. That is what the guidelines say. In an urban area like Nairobi City County, evicting 5,000 people from an area is causing an absolute problem to the City as a whole."
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